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Article de Périodique
Patterns of drug use and sensation-seeking among adolescents in Norway (1989)
(Types d'usage de drogues et recherche de sensation chez les adolescents norvégiens)
Auteur(s) :
PEDERSEN, W. ;
CLAUSEN, S. E. ;
LAVIK, N. J.
Année
1989
Page(s) :
386-390
Langue(s) :
Anglais
Refs biblio. :
12
Domaine :
Plusieurs produits / Several products
Discipline :
EPI (Epidémiologie / Epidemiology)
Thésaurus mots-clés
CONSOMMATION
;
ADOLESCENT
;
RECHERCHE DE SENSATION
;
MILIEU SCOLAIRE
;
ENQUETE
;
POLYCONSOMMATION
;
CONDUITE A RISQUE
;
EPIDEMIOLOGIE
Thésaurus géographique
NORVEGE
Résumé :
The relationship between personality and drug use was investigated by studying patterns of sensation-seeking behaviour and drug use among adolescents. A questionnaire was distributed to a sample of 1027 Norwegian senior high school students aged 16 to 19 in the greater Oslo area. The response rate was 97%. The sensation-seeking subscores showed moderate to strong association with the use of the different drugs. A canonical correlation analysis yielded 3 significant variates: in the drug use domain the first dimension correlated with the use of legal drugs and inhalants, the second with cannabis and tranquillizers and the third with tobacco. In the sensation-seeking domain the first dimension was almost synonymous with the disinhibition scale, the second with experience-seeking, and the third correlated highly negatively with thrill-, adventure- and experience-seeking. The results support the assumption that a strong link exists between sensation seeking and drug use. They further show the importance of taking different subdimensions of the sensation-seeking trait into account for prevention and treatment of drug use and abuse.
Affiliation :
Department of Psychiatry, University of Oslo, Norway
Cote :
A00485